Today we are talking with J. Stephen Conn, ordained Protestant minister and award winning author of the new highly acclaimed memoir, “Growing up Pentecostal.” Welcome to Reader Views J. Stephen.
Juanita: Thanks for joining us today Stephen. Your book “Growing up Pentecostal” has recently been released. Please give us a little ...read more
A certain, hard-to-define sleekness traces the lines of every black cat I've had the good fortune to know -- a certain sleekness, a certain feline wisdom, a certain mystique. They inspire names as dark as the jet color of their fur -- names like Salem and Lucifer and Derry (think ...read more
It seems everyone you meet these days is a self-proclaimed psychologist. From radio talk shows, television interviews, romance novels, weekly magazines, to cliques at work; everybody has an opinion on the latest “mental illness.” I was first introduced to practical psychology when I joined the United States Air ...read more
Sir Isaac Newton knew about the Bible code 300 hundred years ago when he described it as "a cryptogram set by the Almighty….The riddle of the God-head, the riddle of past and future events divinely fore-ordained."
Newton was captivated with the idea that the Torah could contain a code that could ...read more
It wasn't until the early 1970's when I was introduced to Jay Adams that I begin to see a great distinction between generic counseling and genuine biblical counseling. I was 21 years old at the time when the pastor of our new formed church bought and read Adam's book "Competent ...read more
Although the book is considered fiction, Shaila portrays each woman "like it really is" living in a South Asian country where societal rules prevail. In one of the stories she talks about matriarchal control over the daughter-in-law where the daughter-in-law is expected to do all the work, where ...read more
HIS BIO: Bernard Cornwell was born in London in 1944, an illegitimate ‘war baby’ whose father was a Canadian airman and mother in Britain’s Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. He was adopted as an infant and raised in Essex by a family belonging to a religious sect (now extinct) called ...read more
Ben Franklin: America’s Original Entrepreneur Blaine McCormick, Editor Entrepreneur Press, 2006.
This book is billed as “Franklin’s autobiography adapted for modern business” on the front cover. It does, of course, like Franklin, live up to its billing and is a fascinating read in updated, modern language that illuminates ...read more
Beating Adwords is another one of those books that promises to teach you all the tricks that the so called professional marketeers are using, to make a substantial living using pay per click advertising to sell affiliate products.Predominantly although not exclusively the book focuses on using Google Adwords to promote ...read more
The Beader's Companion (Loveland, CO: Interweave Press, ISBN 1-8883010-56-X) by Judith Durant and Jean Campbell is an indispensable tool for bead jewelry designers at the beginning and intermediate level. It is a small (7" x 5") paperback book with spiral binding that lies flat, so you can keep it on ...read more
